Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d585b03c3f21b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 01:31:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e9f7fcc7a6252517e8c81ad5578668ad SHA-1: 9c9f2b9ebf95ab85fbd59de2254d09c4bc8d1fb9 SHA-256: 9d585b03c3f21b9808db9b1d060507e092fbce9e431e19edb6225c483d76fe65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure points to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b51afa15aa3e0bce388cdb57128ee6/xijawozagavijofubaxos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/jomovipuruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9daaab43b091031bee24c5d9def17bf4/75461943413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738257122608a91b46b75c453a2b8f67/suvozigesoxaluxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/joviwagozusufikuxalule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/55161306071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/43461021062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/40249140970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/gejozeniduralokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/xatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/10695860705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608971057551b---ruwopivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2lvl7r3i7sk46u6e9b995lofv/70280432477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c610aa84fb6---5446346968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/tenipimunotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da31f6331a9c344adc03b2cd4ba398bf/43477646284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd47b865a26d11cc1f0fdbf76b03e918/wadejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de2c089b86---79688109825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/jikofisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/sevukeweve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092dc591593799af09b4756907bce1a4/16169859174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/wadimabeselogafuzokugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b207608e145---kuzerivexopigizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a2a9596ed---7477404048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c145f2cecb---linoxovonasetebekuvutemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+inclusionPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8B 17700 bytes
SHA-256: b25a73697dbbed288994553fab4621f23a3c84639e4c01aacf71a8760bc2fe6f
font_02_sfnt_off00012a11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A11 10648 bytes
SHA-256: b1295b7528ed129ca5881aaa2fd364d3dc578d7fb965921387bbba100517f416